Re: EQ8 does not cut low freq's
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:54 pm
Shhh. The adults are talking.
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EQ8 does not cut low freq's
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Re: EQ8 does not cut low freq's
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:28 am
this also happens to me in Ableton 11 now.. I have to place two low cuts sometimes to fully cut the lows... even up to the 70-80 hz range... really quite dumb.
Re: EQ8 does not cut low freq's
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:25 am
step 1: use your ears
step 2: if the cut isn’t enough, use the x4 slope on the filter AND/OR move the cutoff frequency AND/OR change the Q value
step 3: use your ears
bonus step: don’t use your eyes
there’s a reason it’s called *audio* engineering.
step 2: if the cut isn’t enough, use the x4 slope on the filter AND/OR move the cutoff frequency AND/OR change the Q value
step 3: use your ears
bonus step: don’t use your eyes
there’s a reason it’s called *audio* engineering.
Re: EQ8 does not cut low freq's
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:35 pm
Most words used in audio, like "cut" or "warm", are not literal.
EQs reduce gain X dB per octave. So if a EQ reduces -48 per octave, one octave below (for high pass) the sound should be reduced -45 (cutoff is already set to -3db), not -inf.
Considering 32-bit has a huge dynamic range, a -48db/octave cut should show activity even several octaves above or below cutoff (almost 7 octaves).